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Guidelines for Manuscript Submission - (Revised Fall 2025) The Virginia Journal is published twice yearly (Fall and Spring) by the Virginia Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. Deadlines for submit ting materials for inclusion in the spring and fall issues are January 15th and July 15th respectively. Manuscripts should be sent to Dr. Michael Moore, TVJ editor, by email in an attached WORD document (mbmoore@radford.edu) . Each e-mail attachment should be no greater than 4 MB. In submitting a manuscript, the author affirms that it has not been published or accepted for publication elsewhere, unless otherwise stated in writing. Manuscripts

3. Titles of books are followed by place: company, date of publication. The date, volume, and page numbers fol low the title of a journal. If each issue of a journal begins with page 1, include the issue number after the volume number in parentheses. Volume numbers should be italicized, issue numbers should be in parentheses and not italicized for journals. Please see below and the fol lowing web page for further examples of APA styles of various sources. https://libguides.radford.edu/APA7 Examples of Citations American Dietetic Association. (1999). Dietary guidance for healthy children aged 2 to 11 years. Journal of the AmericanDietetic Association , 99 (3), 93-101. Kulwicki, A., & Rice, V.H. (2003). Arab American adoles cent perceptions and experiences with smoking. Public Health Nursing , 20 (5), 177-183. Illustrations Illustrations such as pictures, graphs, and drawings are valuable additions to manuscripts. Please send these em bedded within your manuscript. Reviewing and Editing Each article is reviewed by two members of the Editorial Board. Sometimes a guest editor is asked by the editor to review a manuscript depending upon the topic. To be ac cepted for publication the article must be approved by re viewers. Reasons for rejecting articles include: topic is not of interest to the profession or to only a few members of the Association, topic is of interest but has already been thoroughly discussed in the literature, manuscript discus sion is too general and vague, poor research techniques, the manuscript is poorly written or if human subjects were used in your research and IRB approval was not obtained and provided to TVJ Editor. In some instances, a manu script may be rejected but the author is invited to revise and resubmit it with corrections. Manuscripts accepted are subject to editing to conform to The Virginia Journal format. Final Acceptance for Electronic Distribution After the editor has compiled the journal issue, it is sent to the printers. Virginia AHPERD’s executive director, presi dent, past president and president-elect then edit The Virginia Journal . These four Virginia AHPERD members are pro vided an electronic draft for their revision and comment. Upon their approval, the final document is electronically distributed to all authors and the membership via email and uploaded to the association’s web page.

Manuscripts follow the form of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association and must be typed on 8 ½ by 11 format. The attached manuscript must be double spaced except that direct quotations of three or more lines in length are to be single spaced and indented. Manuscripts should not exceed 8-10 double-spaced pages of narrative. The name and institution of each author are in serted on a title page but not on the narrative. There should be provided on the title page biographical information on each author. This biographic information should include name and position at time of manuscript submission. Any research involving human subjects must have Insti tutional Review Board (IRB) approval before a review can take place. A PDF copy of the letter must be submitted with each manuscript. If IRB approval was not granted and TVJ editor doesn’t have a copy of the approval letter, the manuscript will not be published. Please check with your institution or school for IRB details. References should be listed at the end of the manuscript and should be arranged in alphabetical order. Each refer ence cited in the article must be listed, but only those cited should he included. Sources should be cited by placing the author’s name and date of publication followed by a page number when appropriate in parentheses: i.e., (Cowlick & Rice, 2023). The reference should be cited following the quote or fact noted. References listed at the end of the ar ticle should contain the following information: 1. The author, editor’s or compiler’s name, in reverse order (surname, followed by first and middle initials). 2. The exact title. Titles of books, pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers are underlined: titles or articles within periodicals or books are not underlined and precede the periodical or book in which they are found. Only the first word of the title is capitalized and the title is fol lowed by a period.

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